CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Portrait of a Clean-shaven Man

✦ CRANACH, Lucas the Elder

🖼 Portrait of a Clean-shaven Man, -

◈ Brush drawing

▣ British Museum

◎ London, United Kingdom

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Precise brushwork captures a clean-shaven man's penetrating gaze against neutral background, rendered in Cranach's characteristic linear style. This Northern Renaissance portrait exemplifies German court painting's psychological intensity and meticulous attention to individual identity during the early sixteenth century.

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E. H. Gombrich

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